Jeremiah 10-12; John 14

A morning with women still all of us learning the Discovering God process and in Genesis 3 talking about Eve, the serpent, the curse, hiding.....just struck with how often in the past I have begged Dan to lead and then cut him off at the knees......talking to strong women about what or how it might look if we lived as God desires for us and yet took away from us....or what appears to have been taken from us....and then this song was on the radio as I drove away.....and You do, You will lead us...our men....if we simply ask....and don't hide in the waiting for the answer.

And then John this morning, the promise Jesus made to his disciples...to us that in believing in Him we have a way to the Father and that the Holy Spirit......is here to help us...
John 14 Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15"If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31 but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.

so these 'I wills' are obedience....I can't do them, even think of them without Your Spirit and this morning it was clear that in showing me I make everything about me, that brokenness I need to see and stay in or I will continue this way and more and more I don't want to...truth is tho Abba I don't know how to stop.....but with Your help I can.....and then maybe loving all others will come more supernaturally...so I will when everything becomes about me STOP and ask for Your help and stop fighting / hiding from that truth .